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Facilitation
1-2-4-All
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Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
Purposedifferent
When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.
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Timedifferent
10-20 min45-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
4-100+1-65-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogRanked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority
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FacilitationInclusionIdeation
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
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Facilitation
Dot Voting
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Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
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Innovation
Lean Startup